Underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical and time series data collected ab

Raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson. The data was collected in the Bering Sea from August 22 to September 20, 2016, and submitted to the National Centers for Environmental Information by NOAA's Office of Marine and Aviation Operations.

Use Cases

• Modeling marine weather patterns based on underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship navigation and environmental correlations based on navigational and physical data.
• Studying temporal oceanographic changes based on the described time series data.
• Calibrating remote sensing instruments based on in-situ optical measurements.

Strengths

• Data collection spans a focused 30-day period in a specific geographic region.
• Includes multiple data types (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical) logged from a single platform.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Limitations

• Last updated 2016-09-20 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Automated archival via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program from data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System.

Time Range

2016-08 22 to 2016-09-20

Freshness

2016-09-20 00:00:00

Geography

Bering Sea